Chateau Montelena Winery

Since 1970 the company has been providing Manufacturing - Wines.

Set amid a bucolic northern Calistoga landscape, this winery helped establish the Napa Valley's reputation for high-quality wine making. At the legendary Paris tasting of 1976, the Chateau Montelena 1973 Chardonnay took first place, beating out four white Burgundies from France and five other California Chardonnays. The 2008 movie Bottle Shock immortalized the event, and the winery honors its...

In Short
Housed in a stone castle dating from the 1880s, Montelena produced the wine that won the famous Paris blind tasting in 1976, at which French judges chose this California winery's...

The soil is rich and the sunny Californian climate is ideal for nurturing grapes and subsequent wine making. Alfred Tubbs recognized the above and succeeded in crafting the much sought-after Napa Valley Chardonnay. In fact, at Montelena, grapevine has it that fine grapes give rise to fine wine culture. And Chateau Montelena is one of them!

Chateau Montelena is a Napa Valley winery most famous for winning the white wine section of the historic "Judgement of Paris" wine competition. Chateau Montelena's Chardonnay was in competition with nine other wines from France and California under blind tasting. All 11 judges awarded their top scores to either the Chardonnays from Chateau Montelena or Chalone Winery, another California wine...